5th AOHUPO PRESIDENT’ S MESSAGE Bill has done an outstanding job innavigating this project by organizing aCongressworkshop almost every year in different
A New Chapterof AOHUPO

14th ADNATConvention & 1st
PSI Conference
Young­Ki Paik
AOHUPO President

February 2010
Hyderabad, India
INSIDE THIS ISSUE

President's Message

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PSI Conference2

TPS Conference

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MPI Workshop

3IPS Conference

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JHUPO Meeting

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CNHUPO Conference4

Upcoming News

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Asian Oceania Human
Proteome Organisationwww.aohupo.org

Greetings!
About 8 years ago, AOHUPO was created topromote and coordinate the efforts of theregional proteomics community by four cofounding members: the late Dr. Akira Tsugita(NEC, Japan), Richard Simpson (Australia),
Kazuyuki Nakamura (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan)
and Young-Ki Paik (Yonsei Univ., Korea). Since
its establishment, the number of AOHUPO
society members has been expanded to 14
national groups and currently more than 2000
proteomics scientists are actively engaged invarious disciplines in the proteomics field. In
this regard, I would like to thank all councilors
and their society members. In particular, I want
to give full credit to my predecessor, Richard
Simpson who did an outstanding job as theinaugural president when AOHUPO wasestablished. AOHUPO has been instrumental inenhancing proteomics research and is thepremier professional home for proteomics
scientists and related professionals in the field.
Thanks again to the many colleagues who havevoluntarily contributed their precious time tothis organization over the past 8 years.
In the opening of a new chapter of
AOHUPO, we, executive committee members,
are also proud that our organization has been arole model for other regional and nationalsocieties in terms of organization and operation.
In this regard, I would like to share with you afew thoughts on continuing our tradition. First,
we have grown by having a biannual AOHUPO
conference that has been hosted in rotation bydifferent cities such as Seoul in 2002, Taipei in2004, Singapore in 2006, and Cairns in 2008.
We shall certainly keep this tradition of rotation
and are looking for another great conference inHyderabad in 2010. Second, we are very proudof the fact that MPI (director, Bill Jordan) has
been successfully carried out by ourparticipating members since it was launched inSeoul in 2005.

cities and integrating several different
datasets created by various proteomics
platforms using rigorous bioinformatics
tools. MPI is indeed quite suitable to the
biologically more diverse interests of thecountries in the AOHUPO region. Again,
this MPI is a significant milestone of oursociety and serves as a role model forother regional groups. Lastly, AOHUPO
has contributed to HUPO by hosting two
successful HUPO congresses (Beijing,2004; Seoul, 2007) and we are looking
forward to another successful congress inSydney next year. This congress will havea tremendous impact on the development
anddissemination
ofproteomics
techniques throughout the region.
AOHUPO continues to move forward
into the future and occupies a central
position in the education and training offuture scientists in this region. I am surethat everyone in this society is united tosupport AOHUPO activity.
Since
AOHUPO needs to be more active inestablishing efficient communication
within this region, Hosseini has taken ajob as editor of the AOHUPO Newsletter.
I sincerely congratulate him on thisinaugural issue of the newsletter, whichkeeps us connected and promotesinternational communication. I want toencourage the national societies andAOHUPO
togrow
together,synergistically, which is of course critical
for the success of HUPO as well. In
particular, I want to encourage you toparticipate in the HUPO Toronto congress,
Sept 26-30. Despite the global economiccrisis, the organizers have done an
outstanding job in attracting many
exhibitors, a great number of abstracts, aswell as several social events. We all wish
great success at this HUPO congress
which, will be followed by our 5th
AOHUPO conference in India (February
21st – 25th, 2010, Hyderabad, India,
organizer: Ravi Sirdeshmukh).
I look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you!

5th AOHUPO Congress

The 5th AOHUPO Membrane
Proteomics Initiative

14th ADNAT Convention & 1st PSI Conference

New Perspectives in Proteome Research(Feb 21-25, 2010)
Hyderabad, India Centre for Cellular and Molecular
Biology (CCMB)

The Asian Oceanian Human Proteome Organization(AOHUPO)) is dedicated to fostering proteomic
initiatives and efforts in the Asian Oceanic (AO) region.
AOHUPO biannual Proteomics Conferences are now
well known. Association for the Promotion of DNA
Fingerprinting and other DNA Technologies (ADNAT)
is an organization with members including scientists fromvarious biology disciplines, clinicians and science
thinkers. It is well known for its Annual Conventions on
Contemporary Topics in Biology; Proteomics being
chosen as the theme for its 2010 Meeting. Proteomics
Society – India (PSI) is a recently formed unit of theIndian Proteomics community that has fast grown to a
critical size in recent years. Its mandate is promotion ofeducation and research in Proteomics in India througheducational workshops, discussions and collaborativeinteractions.

The 5th AOHUPO Membrane Proteomics
Initiative (MPI) Workshop was recently held atAcademia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (June 19-20,2009), in conjunction with the 2009 TPS
International Proteomics Conference organizedby Taiwan Proteomics Society (TPS).
Together, the 2-days event attracted over 300
participants, with 19 invited lectures from bothforeign and local scientists, including two by thecurrent HUPO and AOHUPO President, YoungKi Paik. In addition to workshop presentations
by AOHUPO MPI investigators, presided overby the Director, Bill Jordan, who also discussed
the progress, impact and future prospects ofMPI, scientists from US, Canada, and Germany
joined their Asian colleagues in presenting
exciting technical advances and bioinformatics
solutions for increasing the overall coverage,
precision and speed in quantitative and targeted
proteomics, encompassing both the membraneand phosphoproteomics, with applications inclinical diagnosis and biomarker discovery.
The newly elected TPS President, Yu-Ju Chen,
also gave an account of her own research, aswell as the local proteomic scene during herwelcoming address. The international meeting
further provided opportunities for local student
and young participants to present their workthrough poster communications and theAOHUPO to hold its annual council meeting.

The scientific Program: The Education Day will focus on
Basic issues in Proteomic Approaches and Experimental
Design. Symposia will feature speakers representing
experience as well as young promise.
An Open
Discussion on “Proteomics in Biology & Bio Medicine- Challenges and Prospects” is also being planned.
The joint event is expected to exhibit one the biggest
Proteomics events in India and the AO region.

Contact : Organizing Committee

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Page 3The AOHUPO Membrane Proteomics Initiative
The AOHUPO Membrane Proteomics Initiative (MPI)
was established to provide an integrated focus for researchamong groups from the fifteen countries in the AsiaOceania region. Membrane proteins were chosen as thisAOHUPO research theme because of the importance ofthese proteins widely in biology and for a number ofproteomics projects in the region. The concept waslaunched in April 2005 at the First MPI Workshop during
the KHUPO 5th International Proteomics Conference inSeoul. Successive MPI workshops were in Singapore(2006), Hong Kong (2007), Cairns (2008) and Taipei(2009) at the times of local Proteomics Society meetings.
A report of the 4th (Cairns) workshop was published inProteomics 2008, 8: 3920-3923 and a News Article“AOHUPO takes on Membrane Proteomics” featured in
the Journal of Proteome Research in March 2009. MPIWorkshops have included a range of presentations on
various aspects of animal, plant and microbial membraneproteomics with a major emphasis on analysis of theAOHUPO Membrane Proteomics Standard. Additionally,
MPI posters and oral presentations have been given at avariety of national and international conferences,including as scheduled reviews during the upcoming
HUPO 8th Annual World Congress in Toronto September
2009. Several manuscripts are being prepared forsubmission to journals in 2009 and 2010. Seventeen
laboratories from the AOHUPO region have participatedin analysis of a mouse liver membrane preparation thatwas distributed as the AOHUPO Membrane Proteome

Standard (MPS). Some of the groups havecollaborated further with other groups fromacademia and industry during the project. TheMPS was enriched for membrane proteins bystripping off cytoplasmic and cytoskeletal
contaminant proteins. Bioinformatic mining isunderway for the combined data set representing
over 200 Gb of raw mass spec files fromanalysis of the MPS using a wide range ofworkflows and mass spectrometry platforms.
The preliminary conclusions include that similar
membrane protein sets are detected using
different technologies such as shotgun analysis
of proteolytic peptides with separation of
peptides by HPLC or IEF, or using protein
separation by column chromatography prior todigestion and analysis of peptides. The productof this work is expected to be the most complete
description of membrane proteomes andmembrane proteomics based on multi-laboratory
analysis of a single sample. With completion ofthis first phase of the MPI, AOHUPO is now
turning to applications of the technologies. Stem
Cell Membrane Proteomics is a proposed
resulting theme for AOHUPO over the next
three years.
For further information, contact Bill Jordan at
Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand: bill.jordan@vuw.ac.nz

2nd Iranian Proteomics Society Conference , Tehran, Iran - April, 22-24
The second conference of Iranian Proteomics Society(IPS) took place on April 22-24, 2009, at Royan
Institute in Tehran, Iran. About 350 participants from allover the country attended the meeting. The educational
day of conference was held on April 22 with a good
overview of proteomics technologies. During two days
conference (April 23-24) twenty-three lectures werepresented by Iranian scientists as well as invited speakers
including Young-Ki Paik, Pier Giorgio Righetti , Setsuko
Komatsu, Max C.M. Chung, and Hans-Peter Mock.
Lectures and posters covered many different fields ofproteomics including cancer, infectious disease,embryonic stemcell, plant, andmembraneproteomics as well as new advances in technologies.

The current status of Human Proteome Project
was also presented by president of HUPO.

7th JHUPO Annual Meeting, Tokyo, July 27-28, 2009
The 7th JHUPO Annual Meeting was recently held at
Kitasato University Shirokane Campus, Minato-ku, Tokyo(July 27-28, 2009). The 2-day event attracted over 400
participants, with 8 symposia, 2 educational lectures, 83
posters, and 4 invited lectures from both foreign and local
scientists, including Prof. Young-Ki Paik, the current
HUPO and AOHUPO President, and VisithThongboonkerd, the HUPO council member. Dr. HirooImura, Kyoto University Emeritus Professor and arenowned endocrinologist, gave a special invited lectureof “Integrative Celerity Research and Expectation forOmics Studies”. His view from outside of proteomics
attracted many participants. The theme of the meeting was“From Basic Proteomics to Their Applications in theMedical, Pharmacological and Agricultural Fields”.
Lectures and posters covered many different fields ofproteomics
includingnewtechnologies,
massspectrometry, clinical proteomics, laboratory animalmodel proteomics, modifications, quantitativeproteomics, structural proteomics, biomarker
discovery, and agricultural proteomics. The
newly elected JHUPO President, Hisashi Hirano,gave his vision of future JHUPO during hiswelcoming address.

CNHUPO 6th Annual Conference
hina Human Proteome Organisation (CNHUPO) has
annually organized the national conferences since 2003.
The CNHUPO 6th Annual Conference, held on August 2831, 2009 in Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, China, was anoutstanding success with more than 600 participants inattendance. The conference was organized by Beijing
Proteome Research Center (BPRC), Institutes ofBiomedical Sciences Fudan University, Taizhou National
Medical Hi-tech Development Zone and Yangtze River
Pharmaceutical Group.
Under the theme “Proteomics: Decoding Genomes;
Uncovering Biomarkers”, the conference aimed topromote the research and development of proteomics in
China, show the up-to-date progress in proteome sciences
and related disciplines and improve the globalcollaboration. The main body of the conference featured
19 plenary lectures, 72 parallel session lectures, 6
industrial workshops, proteomic technology education. It
was a great honor for having the lectures from several
international eminent scientists in proteomics, includingProfs. Samir Hanash (Fred Hutchinson Cancer ResearchCenter, USA), Catherine Costello (Boston University
School ofMedicine, USA), Stephen Stein (NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology, USA), Jose Mato

(CIC-Biogune, Spain), Naoyuki Taniguchi(Osaka University, Japan), Fuchu He (BPRC,China), Zihe Rao (Nakai University, China),
Hongyang Wang (the Second Military MedicalUniversity, China) and other 11 famous Chinesescientists in proteomics. Furthermore, Hong
Kong Proteomics Society organized thedelegation to participate in the conference withfour scientists, Profs. Ning Li, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, Terence
C.W. Poon (Chinese University of Hong Kong),
John Luk and Dr. Zhi Xu (University of HongKong).
The conference covered a wide range of exciting
and cutting-edge topics in proteomics. Three
Parallel Sessions were featured on the topics of“Functional proteomics”, “Disease proteomics”
and “Proteomics related technologies”. Totally,
287 abstracts were received, including 113
posters presented. Also, it was worthily
mentioned that the conference specially set up
the six Young Investigator Presentation Awards
and ten Poster Awards for Chinese young
proteomics investigators.

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In virtue of the vibrant conference, the Chinese scientists
enjoyed a nationwide forum to summarize the newest
achievement and also a valuable communication platform.
Therefore, we strongly believed that the CNHUPO 6thAnnual Conference had an active impact on further
development of the proteomics in China and the team ofCNHUPO.
Reporter: Xue Gao from Beijing Proteome ResearchCenter

UPCOMING EVENTS
5th AOHUPO CongressFebruary
2010

July
2010

14th ADNAT Convention & 1st PSI Conference

New Perspectives in Proteome Research(Feb 21-25, 2010)
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India

Joint Conference of the 8th Japan Human Proteome Organization Conference(JHUPO) and the 6th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Clinical Proteomics(JSCP)New technologies of large-scale protein analysis
July 26 (Mon) – 27 (Tue), 2010
Tokyo Bay Hotel Tokyo (1-7 Maihama, Urayasu-shi, Chiba, Japan)
http://www.tokyuhotelsjapan.com/en/TH/TH_TKBAY/index.html

Any material submitted will be subject to approval by the AOHUPO
Executive Committee and the Publications Committee
AOHUPO EC members:
President : Young-Ki Paik (South Korea)(paikyk@yonsei.ac.kr)
Past President : Richard Simpson (Australia) (Richard.Simpson@ludwig.edu.au)
Vice President : Kazuyuki Nakamura (Japan)(nakamura@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp)
Vice President : Fuchu He (China)(hefc@bmi.ac.cn)
Secretary General: Maxey C.M. Chung (Singapore)(bchcm@nus.edu.sg )Director of Membrane Protein Initiative (MPI):
Bill Jordan (New Zealand)(Bill.Jordan@vuw.ac.nz)

If you wish to contribute news, noticesof events, or any other items, pleasefeel free to forward it to AOHUPO
Newsletter Office:Iranian Proteomics Society
P.O. Box (31535- 1897), Karaj, Iran.
Telfax : +98-261-2702893
Email: h_salekdeh@abrii.ac.ir
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